Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First it was the home. Phones, fax machines and PCs made it impossible to leave work at the office. Then the cellular phone made the car, even the golf course, fair game. In 1984 Airfone Inc., a GTE subsidiary, began installing telephones on airplanes. But their old-fashioned analog circuitry, vulnerable to interference, made many calls sound as if they came from Mars. Moreover, plane phones were usually scarce, located either fore or aft or shared, one to a three-seat complex, leaving travelers a reasonable excuse for staying blissfully out of pocket...
...past, the reunion committee didn't rent cellular phones to alumni. The phones, Briefer says, are recommended for families with small children--another new development for the 25th reunion class...
...educated middle class that is demanding a voice in politics, and it cannot be subdued by bullets. The very name given to the demonstrators by the Thai press -- mob mua thue, or mobile-phone mob -- testifies to the interaction of affluence and politics: democracy activists coordinated their protests by cellular telephone...
...heart: opposition to a Los Angeles ballot measure that would, at last, make the police chief more accountable to elected officials. Even though Gates claimed he was at the fund raiser for just five minutes (it was closer to 20) and was in communication with commanders via radio and cellular phone, he was at the fund raiser or on the road for roughly 90 minutes when the police were losing control of the situation in South Central...
...members of the Institute of Medicine are: William Hsiao, professor of health systems economics; Stuart Orkin, Fikes professor of pediatric medicine; Ruth Sager, professor of cellular genetics emeritus; Clement Sledge, Brown professor of orthopedic surgery; and Nicholas Zervas, Higgins professor of neurosurgery...